Item no. S683 (stamp)

Type: stamp

Country: Slovakia

Date of issue: 21 August 2018

Stamp, in form of a black print of a souvenir sheet, issued to honor LADISLAV BIELIK (1939 – 1984), Slovak photographer and photojournalist. He was the author of a photograph “The Bare-chested Man in Front of the Occupiers’ Tank” taken in Bratislava on 21st of August 1968, when troops of Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia as a “brotherly help” against Alexander Dubček’s government. The picture has been proclaimed one of the 100 most important photos of the 20th Century.